Nature Museum and Central Zoo Completed

Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The Nature Museum and the Central Zoo were successfully completed. The Nature Museum covering more than 35 000 square meters is a modern mass educational and science research and dissemination base and leisure complex as it has the Space Hall, Paleozoic Era Hall, Mesozoic Era Hall, Cenozoic Era Hall, Animals Hall, Plants Hall, Gifts Hall, E-Library and Sci-tech Disseminating Room. More than 40 animal sheds such as the Shed of Reptiles, Shed of Monkeys, Shed of Beasts, Shed of Elephants, Shed of Giraffes and Shed of Small Horses have been modernly built to match the surrounding scenery. Visitors can easily guess from distance what animals they house. An inaugural ceremony took place on Sunday. Premier of the DPRK Pak Pong Ju, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK, in his address said that the successful construction of the Nature Museum and the Central Zoo was the fruition of the wise leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un who is devoting his all to the work for providing the people with the world-level base for cultural and leisure activities. The inaugural tape was cut by representatives of builders in the army and public units, persons of merits, university students and secondary school students. At the end of the ceremony the participants went round the Nature Museum and the Central Zoo. -0-